The AFL-CIO is conceding its union lacks the power in the South to influence the upcoming 2014 elections, so it is not investing heavily in three hotly contested Senate races. The AFL-CIO looked at the number of union members in
The United Auto Workers (UAW) filed a legal challenge late Friday with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to the certification of the organizing vote it lost last Friday at Volkswagen’s auto plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The challenge was submitted just
On Monday, UAW President Bob King, embittered at his union’s 712 to 626 loss in Friday’s election among workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, blamed Tennessee Republican politicians for the stinging defeat. King told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, “Sen. [Bob] Corker
MSNBC “NOW” host Alex Wagner had contributor Timothy Noah as a guest to discuss what they believe was behind Friday’s “no” vote by a Tennessee Volkswagen plant’s workers against unionization with the Untied Auto Workers (UAW)…
On Tuesday’s “America’s Newsroom,” Fox News Channel co-hosts of “The Five” Andrea Tantaros and Bob Beckel debated merits of a claim that the recent vote at a Chattanooga, TN Volkswagen plant to reject unionization was tied to race.Beckel didn’t outright
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union, long an institution in the American automotive industry, may no longer focus on automobile workers in the wake of its stunning rejection by Volkswagen workers last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Instead, the union may
As the organized labor movement feels blows such as workers of a Tennessee Volkswagen plant deciding not to join a union, Union-sponsored, activist radio shows struggle to maintain what little presence they have left on the nation’s airwaves. Politico reports
On Friday, Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, TN dealt a major blow to the United Auto Workers (UAW) and to Big Labor in general when they voted 712-626 to reject the union. The loss is only the latest setback for the
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) on the news that Friday night Tennessee workers at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga voted down a take over bid from the Detroit based United Auto Workers (UAW) …
Tennessee Republicans, who control a two-thirds supermajority in the state legislature and essentially govern alone, have warned Volkswagen that if the United Auto Workers (UAW) win an election this week to represent VW’s new plant in Chattanooga, the company cannot
On Wednesday, workers at Volkswagen’s new plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee will vote on whether they wish to be represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW), the union that critics say brought the American auto industry to its knees. Auto manufacturing,
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(AP) Mexico: Stolen box with radioactive material foundMEXICO CITY *UPDATE* Mexico official: Stolen cobalt-60 found; says no risk so far to surrounding population. Mexico’s nuclear safety director says a stolen container of radioactive material has been found empty. Juan Eibenschutz says
The pro-amnesty stance of many of the Catholic bishops now has them standing with pro-abortion and pro-same-sex “marriage” politicians, praising the very same liberal activists who have advocated for abortion on demand and have supported that Christian organizations and business
(AP) Toyota retakes global auto sales crown from GMBy TOM KRISHERAP Auto WriterDETROITToyota has dethroned General Motors as the world’s top-selling automaker. The Japanese company sold 9.7 million cars and trucks worldwide in 2012, although it’s still counting. GM sold
Part of the inevitable trajectory of any pop culture phenomenon like the Occupy Wall Street movement is that it will get co-opted as Madison Avenue and Hollywood try to figure out how to turn a profit on rebellion. The business
Democrats, led by corrupt Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, have spent the last two days of the DNC railing against “oil subsidies” as a way to attack Republicans over energy. A few things wrong with this scenario: there
(AP) GM profit falls 41 percent on weakness in EuropeBy TOM KRISHERAP Auto WriterDETROITA big loss in Europe dragged down General Motors’ second-quarter profit. The automaker’s net income from April through June fell 41 percent to $1.5 billion, $1 billion
By JAKE COYLEAP Entertainment WriterNEW YORKAs a new wave of big names enter the growing field of Web series, leave it to Larry David to keep enthusiasm in check. The conceit of the show is exceptionally simple: Seinfeld picks up
Please excuse the loose use of the term “outsource” in my headline. But now that the Washington Post, BuzzFeed Politics, and Barack Obama have defined outsourcing as “Something Romney never did but is guilty of anyway,” I wanted to get in
The comforting whisper voices of authority at NPR want to keep their liberal pledge based hermetically sealed from the reality of nationwide May Day riots and chaos caused by the Occupy movement yesterday. That’s the only conclusion to be drawn
Yesterday, Los Angeles-bound Delta flight 1063 was forced to make an emergency landing at New York’s JFK airport moments after a bird strike that nearly crippled the Boeing 757’s engines. Grant Cardone, best-selling author and international sales expert, happened to
Big Labor backed Indiana Senate Democrats shrilly-repeated inaccurate talking points as they made last efforts to let union bosses know that they tried their best to stop worker freedom from coming to Indiana. But, they failed. Indiana passed Right To
Over a year ago, the president of the United Auto Workers, Bob King, announced a campaign to ‘shame’ foreign automakers with plants here in the U.S. into allowing his union to unionize them–the details of which would be released at
The Obama administration recently proposed raising corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards affecting cars and light trucks sold in America to 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025. However, in a surprising development, the administration is now taking heat from Democratic
Via Roll Call: A collection of 15 Republicans — all former Members of Congress, governors or Environmental Protection Agency administrators — called on the president Wednesday to set aggressive auto emission and fuel efficiency standards beginning in 2017. “I’m just
Morgan Spurlock exploded on the American pop culture scene as the star, writer, and director of the humorous documentary “Super Size Me” in 2003. In that film, he ingeniously shined a spotlight on the epidemic of obesity and the rampant
Morgan Spurlock exploded on the American pop culture scene as the star, writer and director of the humorous documentary “Super Size Me” in 2003. In that film, he ingeniously shined a spotlight on the epic of obesity and the rampant
In the January edition of Vanity Fair magazine Christopher Hitchens becomes the latest in a seemingly endless parade of name callers and reputation-smudgers intent on spreading lies about Tea Partiers, Glenn Beck, and just about anyone else he doesn’t agree
****UPDATE: Link to trailer has been fixed. Most (good) history books correctly portray the collapse of communism as due to the efforts of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II. But there were other subversive elements at work,
[youtube jrNMdFe6MLI nolink] In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: President Obama, United Nations, Muammar Gaddafi, Jimmy Carter, ACORN, Volkswagen Electric Car, Apple iPod, Steve Jobs, Victoria Rowell, Chris Matthews, and David Hasselhoff.